In The Media

Sometimes I get featured elsewhere in the community. Usually it's because I did something right, but don't be surprised to see me drop the ball in a spectacular fashion every now and then. Even Satoshi got it wrong on occasion.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate block chain technologies for non-monetary use cases, specifically in health care and legal record keeping. The study examines whether the technology can be used beyond censorship-resistant payments using non-monetary transactions.

If it turns out that garden-variety ICO tokens are not investment contracts, we really are dealing with a new paradigm and I will eat my hat on Bitcoin Uncensored. Good for the issuer and praise be to the prescience of their enlightened venture backers.

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Chris about the upcoming Bitcoin soft fork, why it's happening and the groups involved and how their interests are different. Jason and Chris also discuss how close Ethereum is to proof of stake (POS) and smart contracts? Chris thinks the rise in 2017 of the price of Ethereum and other alt coins isn't based on any innovation but almost entirely speculation and the greater fool theory.

We have been keeping a close eye to the pending SEC decision which will deny or approve Bitcoin’s ETF for a second time. The price remains uncertain as it tested support multiple times over the weekend. Today, the price dropped over 7% as the correction approached.

Complicating matters, though, is even the most ridiculous have shown a propensity to work. If two years ago, you were told a blockchain would exist that would be so powerful as to enable startups to forego VC investing, you might have laughed. Today, the creators and developers of ethereum would be the ones laughing.

Who remembers Neo & Bee? Better still, who knows what happened after the “Bitcoin bank” fell apart in April 2014, and what has happened since? Former CEO Danny Brewster has broken a long silence to tell his side of the story.

On the other hand, if a company has raised tens of millions of dollars by pre-selling its product to customers before ever building the product, why would it build the product? When ICO’s deliver 100% of the company’s expected receivables at launch, founders are incentivized to leave their project immediately thereafter, writes Chris DeRose.

First, I agree in principle with some of Chris' concerns. Some ICOs are scams or get-rich-quick schemes, designed to take advantage of a hot market and some investors' lack of technical sophistication. Some tokens are very likely to be securities, and anyone working in this space should be cautious and work closely with legal counsel.

So is the title of Chris DeRose’s recent post on Hackernoon. DeRose was attempting to call out ICOs for killing innovation, but he just alluded to that to get to the point he really wanted to make. DeRose firmly believes that the SEC should regulate the ICO industry because it is a scam. His post is full of blanket statements that have little to no nuance.

As if there weren't enough things to worry about in the world, the idea that a limited set of cryptographically unique data can be created and sold by anyone with an internet connection has emerged as a divisive issue, with everyone from the Financial Times to Reddit trolls weighing in.

Hat tip to Bloomberg’s Matt Levine for drawing our attention to this paper from a bunch of academics at the University of Cagliari in Italy examining the Ethereum blockchain’s tendency to incubate Ponzi schemes.

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and altcoins are economically unviable, said BnkToTheFuture CEO Simon Dixon in an interview this week. His opinion is notable, as he and his company previously invested in and heavily promoted the technique.

Due to the pseudonymous nature of bitcoin, it is sometimes difficult to figure out who is using the digital currency and for what reason. In a recent interview with Chris DeRose, Bitbank Group Vice President of International Affairs Virgilio Lizardo Jr. discussed the type of people using bitcoin in China.

During the first week of May, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the agency’s Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) branch have shown a keen interest in bitcoin and blockchain technologies. On May 2 DHS awarded three blockchain-based startups $2.25 million for research and development.

In March, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service published a document which mentioned Bitcoin. The document has nothing to do with the government accepting Bitcoin for visa application fees, as some would have you believe.

We have been keeping a close eye to the pending SEC decision which will deny or approve Bitcoin’s ETF for a second time. The price remains uncertain as it tested support multiple times over the weekend. Today, the price dropped over 7% as the correction approached.

Two best friends. One podcast. Multiple fans. One contentious issue. Many accusations.That's the nutshell explanation of the recent and acrimonious split of the controversial Bitcoin Uncensored podcast team of Chris DeRose and Joshua (Junseth) Unseth.

The “market for Bitcoin block space” is a hot topic. Everyone’s talking about 'blocksize' and 'fees'. Economists frame these issues in terms of 'supply and demand'. I’ve previously argued that, when it comes to blocksize and fees, miners will act as a single coordinated monopolist.

Chris Derose and Joshua Unseth, Bitcoin Uncensored hosts, crashed Satoshi Roundtable 2016. They 'were made aware of the event by nearly 10% of those in attendance,' wrote Mr. Unseth on his blog. 'Through various channels, seven or so people told us where the event was and asked us to please come.'

Purse is a platform that allows users to get a discount on their Amazon purchases by matching bitcoin holders with those who have a balance on the ecommerce platform. In a recent interview with Bitcoin Uncensored’s Chris DeRose, Purse CEO Andrew Lee discussed Purse’s relationship with Amazon.

The conference was a giant success as many guests explained they were very happy to attend the Miami event. Furthermore, Bitcoin.com let the hosts of Bitcoin Uncensored use our exhibition booth to broadcast which was far cleaner than the men's restroom.

First, a brief introduction. For those who aren’t familiar, Bitcoin Uncensored is a loosely defined podcast that’s part constant Soundcloud experimentation and part social media barrage. While maybe nothing on its own, ‘BU’ has coalesced into a (mostly) cohesive (and controversial) flavor of bitcoin intellectualism – one that is at once a rejection of the technology’s earlier Libertarian values and a supposed embrace of its more scientific merits.

Call them what you want; dignitaries, pundits, bigwigs, luminaries or – even – enemies. There are always headstrong debates raging on in the Bitcoin space, and some people’s names get tossed around more than other’s. We decided to reach out to a few of them and ask them a simple question.

Since late November, CoinDesk has been canvassing the community for input on who our readers believe influenced the industry the most. Users were invited to choose one of the names we suggested or anyone they felt had the biggest impact on the year that was.

This week on Bitcoin Uncensored, Chris and Junseth provide the most accurate and reliable analysis of the 2016 US presidential election. Based on what we heard, Junseth probably rigged the election so Trump could pump his bitcoin investments.

A big topic of discussion on this week’s episode focuses on the recent Zcash launch, and why the guys think the cryptocurrency is a scam. While Chris and Junseth didn’t spend too much time scam-busting, they made some hard-hitting points against Zcash.

Just a few of the accusations against the guys suggest that they’re being paid by the Core developers, the r/btc community, or the CIA. We think the CIA theory is the most plausible, it would take some serious money to pull off a trolling operation on a scale as grand as Bitcoin Uncensored.

However, Chris and Junseth disagree with Ver on his block size stance. They argue that the network has done fine so far, with the block size approaching its 1 MB limit, and are skeptical about the problems Ver claims will occur if the block size isn’t raised soon.

Amidst this backdrop, it takes a rare skill to polarize, and in the 'Summer of Stupid', there was perhaps no greater divider than 'Bitcoin Uncensored' – a sprawling, loosely defined 'podcast' that spilled across social media and permeated conversation through the sheer charisma of its creators.

Could a development on the ethereum blockchain help resolve one of bitcoin's longest-running debates? It may not seem like an obvious question given the differences between the two blockchain networks.

Bitcoin Uncensored is a popular Bitcoin podcast that has recently been rustling jimmies and flipping tables in the face of the “Blockchain” community. They offer a scathing, immature and humorous critique of this culture, mainly because it fetishizes mindless support of projects (even if they may be scams) and an air of hyper-seriousness.

Convicted Ponzi scheme operator Trendon Shavers is now insinuating the major unidentified debtor cited in his defense against the SEC may have been Mark Karpeles, CEO of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox.

Last week, the hosts of Bitcoin Uncensored attended and recorded a OneCoin sales seminar in Miami to ask questions about the operation. The video they released shows OneCoin leaders describing how people can get rich by investing in the operation and, come this October, their investments will rise in value because everyone’s coins will be doubled.

The enormous hype around Ethereum these days has hardly been a surprise. With its market cap steadily being second to Bitcoin’s, and mind-boggling price surge of nearly +1,200% during only first three months of 2016...

Bitcoin has been ripping higher recently, and some market participants say the digital currency is finally making a rebound with investors after a sustained fall. The advice from one Nobel Prize winner: not so fast.

This week the Bitcoin Uncensored Podcast with Junseth and Chris Derose interviewed the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, Eugene Fama. Bitcoin Uncensored has given CoinTelegraph the first peek at the interview so that we could publish it for the greater Bitcoin community.

Doug Carrillo, Andrew Barnard, Peter Nova and the other organizers behind the first Miami Bitcoin Hackathon said they didn't know quite what kind of turnout to expect last weekend at The LAB Miami. But the turnout -- 100 programmers and another 70 observers -- showed there is a lot of pent-up curiosity for the emerging digital currency.

Blockchain Beach, a non-profit promoting the use and development of Blockchain Technologies, will be hosting the Miami Bitcoin Hackathon. Spanning from January 9 to January 11, the 28 hour Hackathon will bring local developers together to compete to build working applications within several categories related to bitcoin.

South Florida non profit technology group Blockchain Beach will be hosting its inaugural Miami Bitcoin Hackathon. This three-day event at The LAB Miami in Wynwood starts with a reception and registration event on Friday, Jan. 9, and ends with an award ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 11. Coders will be competing from around the tri-county area for prizes and awards in a number of categories relating to Bitcoin and crypto-currencies technology development.

Bitcoin is said to have been created five years ago by an anonymous computer programmer (or programmers) called Satoshi Nakamoto. This pseudonym is a male Japanese name, but it's never been traced to a real person

Presentations

Let's talk about the big stuff! Chances are that if you're here, you've seen me at a conference. Here's some of my recent talks, hopefully they'll give you some new perspective on something in the Bitcoin space.

At this year's Mobile Payments Conference experts weighed in on a three hour session covering crypto currency's start and finish. Experts were pulled from various sides of the industry, and the discussion topics included: an introduction to how decentralized crypto currencies works, regulatory discussion, application of the technology today as told by Judd Bagley of Overstock, and of course my discussion on where this all goes from here.

Chris DeRose moderates American Banker Bitcoin and the Blockchain conference panel on Remittances. The speakers, Junseth, Stephen Waterhouse, and Ron Schwartzman represented the Blockchain, the Pantera VC firm, and well-known remitter Uniteller respectively. Schwartzmans experience in remittances offers an unique perspective into the business of remittances, and Junseth and Waterhouse give the bankers a little bit of food to chew on about what the future of remittance might look like in a Bitcoin world.

In addition to staging groundbreaking and industry-leading Bitcoin companies, The North American Bitcoin Conference partnered with Pantera Capital to opened up the stage to emerging talents. TNABC Pantera Start-Up Stage is a unique opportunity for start-ups to present their ideas directly to their peers and in front of a panel of industry experts.

In this video, Chris DeRose gives a refresh on the classic 'What is Bitcoin' talk, with added info about the 2.0 technologies, and the commodity value of Bitcoin. This talk was for an audience at IT Palooza at Nova South Eastern University on December 4th, 2014.

During the Women in Ecommerce Luncheon in July, Chris DeRose from DeRose Technologies Shared a tech tip about using DropBox at http://www.dropbox.com (video was filmed live and unedited) DropBox is a great online tool to help you manage your files online and do business on the web.

Bitcoin is on a massive trading frenzy, with prices for the digital currency breaking through many all-time price and volume highs. As Bitcoin’s weekend trade price reached over $2,000 U.S. dollars, many are wondering why.

In this opinion piece, DeRose looks at the promotion of blockchain and distributed ledger solutions, arguing that, in many cases, they're simply a smokescreen for the shallow repurposing of existing ideas.

Despite challenges in other areas, blockchain's use as a value routing protocol is developing at blistering speeds, and I would argue, with amazing results. If you know where to look, you can see labor specializing, banking services being extended and information services being globalized.

While prominent blockchain groups are quick to herald in the age of the appcoin model of software design, no one has yet sat down and taken an honest and sober look at the proposition of these investments and their impact on product development incentives.

It's the buzzword that magically transforms a simple database into the next milliondollar VC fundraise. However, most of the projects that advertise this feature are not being entirely honest about just what kind of immutability they're offering.

As far as digital currency has come, the passing of bitcoin for purchases is still a relatively primitive transaction. But what if you could program such transactions to occur at preordained times, under set circumstances, and even involving a preregistered group of multiple counterparties?

With every year comes a new audience fresh to the field with ambitions to solve all the problems of our day with blockchain. Common to nearly all of this year's blockchain pitches is the odd and previously unsexy efficiency of "notarization".

"Blockchain all the things" has become the battle cry of many Bitcoiners. In the last year, blockchains have been touted as panaceas that can solve all the "bad" parts of Facebook, the "insecure" parts of databases, and even as a solution for income inequality and government corruption.

In the six years since Bitcoin’s debut, there has been no shortage of attempts to repeat its success. Thousands of blockchains have arrived and fizzled out without much fanfare. But many hold out hope that one day an alternative contender will succeed.

Twenty years ago, discussions over digital currency were confined entirely to the realm of science fiction. At the time, the notion that value could exist digitally and absent management by individuals was not only laughable, it was in many ways a proven impossibility.

Say Bitcoin in a crowded room, and you'll find at least one guy who believes it's going to start a financial revolution. Most people remain skeptical of the libertarian utopia wherein the government cedes control of the money supply to Bitcoiners. But some are starting to come around on the blockchain as an important part of our digital future.

Most people remain skeptical of the libertarian utopia wherein the government cedes control of the money supply to Bitcoiners. But some are starting to come around on the blockchain technology that enables Bitcoin as an important part of our digital future, as well as an advancement that threatens the third parties that often manage financial transfers.

The Bitcoin bowl was an explosion of hype, confidence, and unbridled optimism. It was a wonderful success for Bitcoin, and an amazing moment in our movement. Many articles have already been written in the short time since the Bitcoin bowl has ended, which discuss the amazing and outstanding event that has just occurred. I myself have even published a fun video of my time at the Bitcoin Bowl.

While it’s a common refrain in the Bitcoin universe that the Blockchain will have countless uses for the storage and management of scarcity in our lives, it’s still a field that’s just starting to deliver on this promise.

There is a large, imposing steel door along a popular street, in the bustling downtown business hub of Buenos Aires. There are no visible markings, or signs, that would indicate to passers-by what is housed inside.

Though the price of Bitcoin is shaky, and the mood of Bitcoiners is somber, Jason King is throwing quite a party down in Orlando, Florida. Coins in the Kingdom has come to an end after a packed weekend of speakers whose topics spanned the gamut of introductory programming and usage of Storj (Shawn Wilkinson) to the pragmatic applications of smart contracts by a seasoned attorney (Pamela Morgan).

Between the efforts of Jason King and Andreas Antonopoulos, Coins in the Kingdom might secure it’s place as the most charitable Bitcoin conference of the year. At the end of the first day of the conference, Andreas Antonopoulos was approached by Chris DeRose for a signature on a unique piece of numismatic history: a Ten Trillion Dollar Zimbabwe Reserve Note.

How many of you heard of Counterparty (github)? Awesome, wonderful, that’s encouraging sign. How many of you have a Counterparty asset (counterwallet github)? Oh wow, I am in a good audience here. I thought it was more of a introductory course, but good. I want to try to teach how to use those assets and really start thinking what those assets mean.

Youtube Videos

At some point, I realized that I'm getting asked the same sets of questions on a regular basis, so I decided to start compiling my answers into a youtube channel. Here's where they are, feel free to watch any one of these that grabs your attention. If you have questions of your own, tweet them to me! I love to help out the newcomers around here.

Notable Cats

You can't be a great programmer without a cat! As such, it's important that we recognize the mammals that make us who we are. These cats in particular have all contributed in some way, to what you see here.

In this episode, we are joined by Chris DeRose of Derose Uncensored (the apparent love child of Larry King and Howard Stern) and talk growing up in Miami, state’s national identity, the resilience of bitcoin and its politics, decentralization, intention, outrage culture, feminism, Chris’s values as a host, and more.

Today, I talk with Chris DeRose of the Bitcoin Uncensored YouTube show and podcast about changes he's undergoing with his show, his thoughts on the Monero community and the potential future Monero needs to plan for, and the movements of the cryptocurrency space in general. If you're unfamiliar with Chris, check out his YouTube channel.

In this first episode of CryptoScam, Chris DeRose and I explore the possibility of Bitcoin being a Scam. We cover topics like Natural Ponzi's, Bitcoin's early days with Satoshi mining most of the bitcoins, current use cases and what we see for the future.

I want to propose that on January 3rd, the 8th anniversary of Bitcoin's genesis block, every cryptocurrency aficionado take a day to chill on the arguing, so we get a sense of what it’s like to be a huge, cohesive group.

Onecoin is a craze that's sweeping the nations, with many critics saying it should be avoided at all costs. Join us today as we chat with two researchers who have been tracking Onecoin events and business

Josh and Chris Disucuss Ethereum, Factom, and Fungibility alongside the usual events of the week in the channel. This is a first post of the uncensored version, so let's see if people like this format!

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities

First, Adam is joined by Chris DeRose who recently return from Argentina. They talk differences, similarities and lessons to learn. Then, Chris shares with us an interview from Argentina with Diego, a very active Bitcoiner helping bring the technology to the people who need it.

In this podcast I interview Chris DeRose, Chris is the owner of DeRose Technologies an IT solutions provider specializing in Linux, and just about anything else.

Projects and Companies

These are businesses and projects that I'm affiliated with in one way or another. Most of what you see outside this section is for my hobbies and evangelism work. This section is for serious business time!

Once a week I set aside a night to spend with local Bitcoiners and wandering visitors. It's my favorite night of the week, and I float from city to city so that I get to spend time with as many people as possible here in the South Florida Bitcoin scene. Be sure to check out the schedule, and come out to meet me at anytime!

If you've read this far down, you know that I'm very active in the Counterparty community, and spend much of my time exploring the platform and its merits. I'm the first community director of the Counterparty foundation, and am proud to play a small part in its mission.

DeRose Technologies is my technology consulting firm that I started in 2003, and which I've been running for over a decade. It's fairly boring compared to most of what's on this page, but it's my dayjob. If you're looking for a conventional IT service and programming firm check us out.

Similar Looking People

Apparently I've got a recognizable face. This section is for the people that I've been accused of being at one time or another. (And which I am not)